Kamui Kobayashi has set the fastest time for Wayne Taylor Racing in the fourth and final practice session ahead of the Rolex 24 at Daytona tomorrow.
The Japanese WEC regular set a time of 01:35:340 in the #10 Cadillac DPi-VR to outpace Acura Team Penske’s Helio Castroneves by 0.393s. The #7 Acura ARX-05 was still three-tenths clear of third-placed Sebastien Bourdais in the #5 Mustang Sampling Cadillac DPi-VR.
Mike Conway was fourth in the #31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac, ahead of the #85 JDC-Miller Cadillac of Chris Miller and both Mazdas, while Dane Cameron brought up the rear in the #6 Acura.
The session was shortened after Don Yount crashed heavily in the #38 Performance Tech Motorsports ORECA 07-Gibson with 15 minutes remaining in the session, ending up in the tyre barrier on the inside of turn 6. Yount climbed out under his own power, after which race control decided not to restart the session.
Nicolas Lapierre set the pace in LMP2 in the final session before tomorrow’s endurance classic, the Frenchman posting a 01:42:962 in the #8 Tower Motorsport by Starworks ORECA 07-Gibson, just 0.019s clear of fellow WEC LMP2 competitor Gabriel Aubry in the #52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports ORECA.
Antonio Garcia led the way for Corvette Racing in GTLM as the #3 Corvette C8.R outpaced the two Porsches with a 01:42:962, with Nick Tandy second in the #911, and Laurens Vanthoor third in the #912.
GTD was led by the #11 GRT Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo as Franck Perera went round Daytona International Speedway in 01:46:308, just over a tenth clear of Toni Vilander in the #63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488 GT3.
Black Swan Racing, which made its return to the track for the first time since a crash in the first practice session, took third courtesy of Jeroen Bleekemolen. The #54 Porsche 911 GT3 R had to be complete rebuilt, which included a borrowed chassis from fellow Porsche runners Wright Motorsports.
